Before we headed home I dropped the car at a warehouse and we walked the rest of the way home. Also, I took the box in the trunk of the car and took it with me home. we passed by a convenience store bought some food and headed home since I invited Lucy for dinner.
I opened my door and put the box that was on the trunk of the car on the kitchen counter while Lucy dropped down on the couch
"so you got anything to drink?"
"yeah give me a second I have some wine in my room"
"wine? Why not beer or strong alcohol?".
"You know that I don't like carbonated drinks right"
I came back and saw Lucy using my laptop to transfer all of the money on the shards to my account.
"so how much did we make in total?"
"25,000EU from the shards another 15,000EU from the payment of the job and finally 100,000 from the main account of Roice so a total of 140,000EU"
I pour some wine for Lucy and myself I give it to her and said
"To Roice for his generosity"
We clicked our drinks and drank it. My eyes glow and I transfer 70,000EU to Lucy. " thanks for the help tonight I don't think it would have been as clean as it was without your help"
"70,000EU are sure? I thought the payment you promised me was 6000EU?"
"Yeah, most of the money we made tonight was because of you. you deserve half"
she looks at me for a few minutes and says "You know that is not how most Merc operate, they usually would only give the Runner 10,000EU at most since is the Merc who risking his life by going on the mission and sneaking around."
"That's true but is also true that you could have stolen half of the money and I would have not known since is you who did the hacking. and I rather work with someone who I can trust than someone who could betray me in the most crucial of times."
"..."
"Well let's stop talking about the job and start cocking some food" I knew she did not like to talk about her life, especially about trusting people. while Maine sent people from his crew to check on me. Lucy was the one who was here most of the time with only Rebeca being the second, since she lives next door. we got to know each other and even started to become good friends. She did not like me in the beginning because she thought I was just another corpo kid who got kicked out of the Akasaka academy. fun fact she is the reason Maine found me so quickly, the first time we met she scanned me and saw that I was an Arasaka student. but after I explained to her the first time she came to check on me, how my mom died, and that I got into the Saka Academy with high scores in academics we started to get along.
After dinner, we went to the roof and sat by some chairs I brought and started drinking. that night she told me about her dream to one day go to the moon and how she escaped an Akasaka facility when she was just around 13. how all her friends died that day because of an attack from a rival corporation. A few minutes later she even tried to lighten up the mood by saying how she had a drome who she reprogrammed to be her pet friend that she had to leave behind when she escaped.
I stayed quiet throughout her story and after she was done, I went close to her and hugged her. we stayed like that and I started to tell her how my dream is to live a happy and long life while also getting rich. she laughed lightly and I do not know what happened but I leaned closer to her and kissed her, at first I thought she would move away but after a few seconds, she kissed me back. we stayed like that for a few minutes.
"wow! That was nice" I said
she looked back and said "Yeah" while blushing a little.
we stayed on the roof for another half hour just drinking and talking about random stuff until she said that she had to go home. As she was about to leave I grabbed her hand and asked her if she wanted to stay the night. she agreed and we headed to bed that night we slept on the same bed. but nothing happened we were just two people who needed company.
Next morning
As I opened my eyes I saw silver-blond hair. I looked down and saw Lucy still sleeping but now she was on top of me. it took me a few minutes but I managed to free myself from her and took a shower, after that, I went to the Kitchen to make breakfast. As for food, the situation with animals in this world took a rather unpleasant turn. In the early 2000s, they almost went extinct due to some virus. livestock was infected too. forcing many corporations to find a solution to the hunger problem. After years of research, scientists managed to clone meat, and soon the technology was widespread by 2025 synthetic food was nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, and now there's no difference at all. Natural food became a luxury only for the wealthy, a way to flaunt their status.
Synthetic food is divided into several classes, each progressively improving in taste and nutritional value. for example, the cheapest meat costs 10 eddies per kilo. while the most expensive goes for 50 eddies per kilo. I had the chance to try all of the different brands and I can confidently say that the cheap stuff is like chewing on plastic sprinkled with spices. while the expensive is like eating normal meat from my last world. That's why food holds a special place for me.
As I finished making food for me and Lucy, I looked at the Box that was still on the counter and opened it. inside there was a black with some purple lines suit with some mechanical parts and on the bottom, there was a helmet, as I was about to take a closer look, but Lucy came out of my room and looked at the table, she gave me a smile that almost made my heart stopped. I put the suit back in the box and sat down to eat with her.
We did not talk about anything, just enjoyed each other company. until we both finish washing the dishes. Lucy looked at me and asked, "So are we a couple now?".
"I would like that but if you wanted to take things slow I'm fine with that too."
"I think that I wanna see where this goes"
I smiled got close to her and gave her a kiss, which was interrupted by the ringing of my front door. we both smile and say the same thing "Beca is here Breakfast".